Created by the Data Library team of the University of Edinburgh as a result of funding from the JISC Managing Research Data programme, MANTRA is a freenon-creditcoursethatprovidesguidelinesforgoodpracticeinresearchdatamanagement.AnOpenEducationalResource,itisalsofreelyavailable throughanopenlicenceforre-using,re-brandingandre-purposing.

Plan

Discover& Reuse

Create

UseAppraise

Publish

MANTRAResearch Data

Management Training

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra

Formoreinformation,emaildatalib@ed.ac.uk

Data management plans

Goodpracticeandresponsible research Checklists&planningtools Funder compliance

Organising data

Housekeeping File versioning Naming & re-naming conventions

Documentation & metadata

Documentationaspartofthe scholarly record Metadata to describe & facilitate sharing

Storage & security

Secureback-up&storage Strategies for long term data security

Data protection, rights & access[under development]

Dataconfidentiality& disclosure Anonymisation

Preservation, sharing & licensing[under development]

Licensing & sharing data Legal&ethicalobligations Formal & informal data sharing

MANTRA and the Research Data Lifecycle

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Key =linkagesbetweenthemodulesandtheresearchdatalifecycle

Formats & transformation

FileFormatting File Compression FileNormalisation

Research data explained

What is research data? Why managing data is important Howresearchdatadiffersfrom otherinformation